Chris Coppola, MD, LTC, was deployed twice to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, assigned to the 332nd Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq, where many of his patients were seriously wounded children. He has conducted medical missions in Haiti, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Amazon, and serves on the only global Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) team in the world, traveling to remote parts of the world to rescue babies in need of emergency respiratory care. He is currently a pediatric surgeon in Danville, PA, working for Geisinger Health System in Janet Weis Children’s Hospital. His articles have been published in many prestigious medical journals.
The Mystery of Risk: Drugs, Alcohol, Pregnancy, and the Vulnerable Child
Ira J. Chasnoff, MD, is president of Children's Research Triangle and a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. He is one of the nation's leading researchers in the field of prenatal exposure to alcohol and illicit drugs and the author of eight books, including Drugs, Alcohol, Pregnancy, and Parenting, which received the Book of the Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing. He lives in Chicago, IL.
Choice of a Lifetime: What You need to Know Before Adopting
Kyle N. Weir, PhD, is an associate professor of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) and the Program Coordinator of the Counselor Education program at California State University, Fresno. He is also a clinical faculty member, supervisor, and former director of Fresno Family Counseling Center (FFCC), a community-based therapy and training clinic operated by the faculty and students of Fresno State’s MFT program. He currently directs the Whole Family Theraplay project at FFCC. As a licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. Weir is the author of numerous journal and magazine articles and the book Coming Out of the Adoptive Closet.
Frederick S. Lane is an author, attorney, expert witness, and professional speaker on the legal and cultural implications of emerging technology. He is the author of six books, including American Privacy: The Four-Hundred-Year History of Our Most Contested Right, and has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, the BBC, and MSNBC. He currently serves as chairman of the Burlington (VT) School Board.
Life Before Birth: The Hidden Script that Rules Our Lives
Arthur Janov, PhD, is one of the world's leading psychologists and author of eleven books, including the international bestseller, The Primal Scream. He is the founder and director of the Primal Center in Santa Monica, California, and has been elected to the Academic Hall of Fame of Claremont Graduate School. Early in his career he was on the staff of the psychiatric department at Los Angeles Children's Hospital, where he was involved in developing their psychosomatic unit. He and his wife, France D. Janov, co-director at the Primal Center, have lectured worldwide on primal theory and primal therapy, including at the Royal College of Medicine, in London, England; Hunter College, in New York; and the Karolinska Medical and Research Center, in Stockholm, Sweden. His work has also been the subject of a PBS special in the United States and of documentaries in Germany, England, France, and Sweden. Dr. Janov’s therapy sessions with John Lennon in 1970 helped inspire the album John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band.
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